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Toluca, Edomex. June 2, 2024.- At 8:00 a.m. this Sunday, the electoral day of the State of Mexico began, where the installation of 20,979 polling stations throughout the state territory is scheduled to be installed. The governor of the State of Mexico and electoral authorities launched a call to citizens to go out and vote freely and calmly.
The political parties with representation in the state were emphatic in asking the three levels of government to create the conditions so that throughout the state people can go out to exercise their right in peace and they demanded that they act with prudence so as not to generate that tempers are exacerbated.
The president of the Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico, Amalia Pulido Gómez, stressed that electoral institutions play a very important role in citizen participation because to the extent that people know that their vote will be properly counted, they are more likely to go to the polls. .
“Today culminates a 150-day process that will be remembered in the history of the entity. Materials, documents and all the conditions to exercise a free and secret vote have been made available to the largest registry in the country. That is why I believe that yes, it is the largest election in history, beyond the size of the registry, due to the greatness of the device that is presented today, the almost 13 million voters, we will be able to peacefully go out today to express our political will, Knowing that this will be duly accounted for in the final result, I invite political actors to conduct themselves with civility and wait for the official results,” said Pulido Gómez.
“A few minutes ago that appointment that we citizens have at the polls began. Emphatically, I want to invite all people to set an example for the rest of the country and exercise that sublime moment, in which we turn a ballot into the most important icon of liberal democracy, the vote. This Sunday, June 2, is not a time for apathy, it is an opportunity to collectively build the governments and congress that we will have in the coming years. That is why the commonplace that states that election days are civic holidays is never excessive,” he stressed.
Previously, each of the members of the General Council of the IEEM called on citizens to go out and vote with complete confidence.
In this local election in the State of Mexico, more than 1,300 positions are at stake, among which are the integration of the 125 municipalities of the entity for the three-year period 2025-2027 and the confirmation of the new Mexican Legislature that will begin operations on Next September 5th.
During this Sunday morning there were some delays in the installation of boxes in various parts of the entity. At 10:15 a.m., the authorities had a report that 78.5 percent of the scheduled boxes had already been installed, that is, 16,488 boxes of the 20,979 programmed.
